Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Freed up J's laptop, and got G. working with a Mac + remote-X. I am still astounded that you can go for this amazing UX decision of having a minimalist single button on the mouse - while simultaneously infesting the keyboard with an additional 'Mac' modifier in addition to Ctrl and Alt - making a foul confusion of keybindings cross-platform, and having no obvious # key either.
Got G's first commits pushed.

2018-07-23 Monday.

Mail chew, bid a sad au-revoir to Gerd's team. George arrived in the morning - moved some hardware around to make a space for him, and got him going on some tasks. Encouraging to see his C++ & JS progress in a day.
Product team meeting; some code reading; customer call.

2018-07-22 Sunday.

Up early; H's birthday - croissants & presents at breakfast. Out to All Saints for an early communion - then off into Cambridge together. Enjoyed wandering the town, looking at the architecture.
Picnic on Jesus green, played in the play-ground. Punting action together along the mayhem of the Cam - punted alongside a few daughters happily.
Home for some Vive goodness, and a buffet tea; bed lateish.

2018-07-21 Saturday.

Julia's birthday, presents in bed, sogging with N. and H. variously. Breakfast, out to Anglesy Abbey for a fine picnic lunch in the sun with everyone and a wander.
Back to see Gerd, Kerry, Sarah & Liam - visiting from Australia, played games with them - up late talking to Gerd & Kerry.

2018-07-20 Friday.

Up at 2:30am for some reason - mail chew - admin. Breakfast, sync call with Eloy. Played a little with Android, sync with Kendy, filed tickets.
National Treasure 2 in the evening - a re-make of the first version it seems; hmm.

2018-07-19 Thursday.

Mail; built metrics with Tor. Booked travel to the ownCloud conference too.
Interested by Bradley arguing for reduced restrictions on speech in codes of conduct: an encouraging direction of travel. Personally, I think protecting speech, academic freedom, and more is well worth the cost of hearing some unpleasant opinions. Having said that - one of the things that dismays me about FLOSS conferences are the tedious, low-level and lazy attacks on Trump voters and their mental capacity (I have no vote in any US election). I really dislike political polarization as a modern-day US export: the idea that by painting your opponent as completely evil you galvanize your support base is not new, but getting worse. Carefully re-reading some various recent polarizing views from some emminent lawyers, it seems that it is possible to be deeply concerned about the US's direction of travel and the role of the judiciary without being unhinged. I can believe such concern might move some to the point of drastic action - such as voting for the only plausible short-term protection from some perceived long-term evil - without actually having a pro-incoherence approach themselves. I can also imagine economic concerns, perhaps unfairly conflated with immigration being a key issue - under-addressed by the mainstream (as arguably in the Brexit vote). It would be good to hear some more balanced criticism of the lamentable failures of the alternatives in both parties too - as well as in the electorate (or the media) for following their long term trend of being more interested in politics & news as entertainment, rather than policy & information.
ESC meeting; posted minutes, dinner, TDF Advisory Board call.

2018-07-18 Wednesday.

Mail; admin, monthly all-hands call. A little hackery, some estimation, worked late on proposals.

2018-07-17 Tuesday.

Sync with Miklos, Eloy, Foad, lunch, projections, partner bits. Monthly mgmt call. Patch review, admin. Built ESC bug stats.

2018-07-16 Monday.

Mail, catch-up call with Eloy, admin, lunch. Sync with Lubos, Miklos & Tor. Status report. Booked travel to the Nextcloud conference and some hack-festery - Mon/Tues. Pair of partner calls in the evening.

2018-07-15 Sunday.

Breakfast, off to All Saints with Tim, who spoke briefly of their work, back for Pizza lunch, much slugging & digesting, a walk on the heath; bid 'bye to Tim, Suzie & Simon, put babes to bed and read to them.

2018-07-14 Saturday.

Up late, odd jobs around the house; got into window-cleaning unfortunately my squeegee (a birthday present) got left leaning on a sharp wood edge so leaves a lovely line down the window; bother. First clean in 12 years or so (now convinced this is a good cadence for window-cleaning). Turns out there is a whole world of colour outside - I should get out more.
Watched National Treasure with the family, SHIELD in the evening, caught up with Tim & Suzie; bed.

2018-07-13 Friday.

Mail; sync with Miklos, support bits, admin, patch review, Tim, Suzie & Simon over in the evening - talked Graphite, and SIL much of the evening.

2018-07-12 Thursday.

Mail chew; finally got a chunk of admin / documentation done. Sales & Marketing call. Customer mail.
Interested to hear of a peer of E's being sick in a Sex & Relationships Education (SRE) class covering prophylactics - 10 year olds not loving that.
Babes to music; fixed a pivot table regression for fun.

2018-07-11 Wednesday.

Finally got around to building ESC proto-agenda. Bug review, admin, started to fit fun tasks between the annoyance again to make at least some progress. ESC call in the evening. Band practice, Julie back to stay for a bit.

My content in this blog and associated images / data under images/ and data/ directories are (usually) created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0 license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes / improvements / corrections by private mail.

In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE, Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International), or anyone else. It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy. Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences or fun.